
Sarah Malaba
Co-CEO of Tiko, an African non-profit improving adolescent girls' health across Sub-Saharan Africa; veteran public health leader based in Nairobi.
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Jun 12, 2026
Unlocking the Girl Dividend: Why Smarter Health Financing is Africa’s Best Economic Bet
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Eszter KismodiHOST
Can you actually talk, Sarah, about the triple threat? What does it mean and how it fits into the siloed system? And who actually has the power, accountability, responsibility to break that open? And what's stopping not doing that?

Sarah MalabaGUEST
Yeah, so the triple threat, as far as TIKO is concerned, and most of the African governments, when you talk about the triple threat to the lives of girls, it talks about the three interconnected but dangerous threats that collectively account for the highest number of disease, the highest number of deaths, and the highest number of disability among adolescent girls and young women in sub-Saharan Africa.

Sarah MalabaGUEST
And the three really around unintended pregnancy, new HIV infections, and sexual violence.

Sarah MalabaGUEST
So those three in the past, in terms of addressing them, were addressed in a silo, because that's how funding and the health structuring was done in terms of services delivery.

Sarah MalabaGUEST
But today we say that if we're to win the war against unintended pregnancy, which continues to persist, and more than three quarters of new HIV infections take place among adolescent girls of 15 to 24 years, we need to actually address the pervasive issue around sexual violence, which is really the biggest driver of unintended pregnancy and HIV.
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Eszter KismodiHOST
So it's not only just adding girls into the maternal health agenda, adding girls to the HIV agenda, adding girls into the GBV agenda, but there has to be a clear line of health financing that actually goes beyond health financing it it also include social accountability in so many perspectives so what can move action so how the actual financing into into girls can happen in take your own government or what do you think needs to happen